And now… we have this:

Alexander McQueen’s DNA Is Being Used For Fashion Line Called ‘Pure Humans’

Alexander McQueen may be coming back to the markets, six years after the designer’s tragic death. A student from McQueen’s alma mater Central Saint Martins has reportedly planned to use the designer’s DNA to produce a line of leather accessories, in an attempt to bind together biotechnology and luxury.

Tina Gorjanc, a graduate from the institution’s MA Material Futures course, released a fashion line called “Pure Humans,” promising to be the “intersection of luxury and biology.” The collection pulls the DNA from the labels of McQueen’s first collection — named “Jack the Ripper Stalks His Victims”— that contained his hair. The genetic material is extracted and processed with cell culture, eventually turning it into skin tissue that can be treated in the same way as leather.

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